orson welles

When Orson Welles made his War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938, nearly six million people heard it. Of those, one million believed it to be true. A study done after the panic showed these people were largely rural, poor and uneducated — the same demographic of people who largely comprised Trump’s voter base. As Sinclair’s must-run segments come to the forefront of the media, this same demographic is left crying fake news.